Migrants from Central America yell through a border wall at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent after he pulled down a banner Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, in San Diego. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

A woman and her baby girl stand outside the El Barretal, a shuttered club being used temporarily to house at least 1,500 migrants in Tijuana. She traveled with the caravan from El Salvador, fleeing the brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, she said on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers walks along a wall at the border between Mexico and the United States, as seen from San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach a fence separating the two countries. The Border Patrol office in San Diego said via Twitter that pedestrian crossings have been suspended at the San Ysidro port of entry at both the East and West facilities. All northbound and southbound traffic was halted. (AP Photo/Greg Bull)

Migrant children play near their tents outside El Barretal shelter in Tijuana on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers form a line along the southbound lanes of the San Ysidro port of entry Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, in San Diego. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Rallies in support of and against the thousands of Central American migrants waiting in Tijuana to cross into the United States are scheduled for Friday.

As groups across the country host events this week in solidarity with the migrant caravan, supporters plan to host a rally between 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, in Irvine.

Hosted by the Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, participants plan to meet at the baseball field by the corner of Alton Parkway and Culver Drive. They’re encouraged to bring “positive” signs and candles or lights.

The rally is part of a “Love Knows No Borders” series of events across the nation, with organizers calling on the United States to “respect the human right to migrate, end the militarization of border communities, and end the detention and deportation of immigrants,” according to the American Friends Service Committee website.

On the other side of the political divide, a group of parents whose children were killed by people living in the country illegally plan to show their support for President Donald Trump and his call for a border wall at 11:30 a.m., also on Friday, at 4211 Camino de la Plaza, San Ysidro.

“We’re calling on all Americans to support President Trump, who’s fighting hard to keep his campaign promise to build the wall,” Rancho Cucamonga resident Agnes Gibboney said in a statement. Her son, Ronald Da Silva, was fatally shot by someone who had previously been deported. Last January, she joined Trump in a campaign ad opposing illegal immigration.

“We need to build the wall so we can prevent the needless loss of life at the hands of illegal aliens,” Gibboney said.

More than 6,000 people recently traveled by foot, bus and train in caravans from Central America, mostly Honduras, with hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Some have crossed into the U.S. and some went back home. Most remain south of the border.